Unlike the Qur’an, I am not intransigent; I can accept that organisations, corporations, crime syndicates, or even religions can change. I will happily call any Muslim friend.
I mean, it cannot be the desire of most Muslims to stone, maim and persecute. Most Muslims are I presume like most other people and just want to get on with having a happy family life. Most Muslims were just unfortunate to be born into such a hatefully totalitarian doctrine.
So, I will happily call friend any Muslim who stands up against the violence perpetrated in the name of his religion and denounces all the persecution in his tradition.

Evil only flourishes while good men do nothing.

As for Islam itself?
I despise the control enforced on people by any archaic tradition or custom, I find all religious circumcision abhorrent for example, but I feel of all the vicious evil doctrines that this world has tried and abandoned, Islam is the most oppressive and destructive to humanity.
I have considered this at length, as perhaps you’ve read, and find I can only agree to accept Islam as a free and fair institution after certain changes are made…

When Islam is not bent on global domination then I will know Islam is a free and fair religion of peace.

When no Muslim man will allow a woman, homosexual, apostate to even be spoken to maliciously, then I will know Islam is a free and fair religion of peace.

When all Muslim men realise, if your wife went off and fucked someone else, it’s likely to be as much your fault as hers, it was her free choice and you have no right to punish her for her free choice, then I will know Islam is a free and fair religion of peace.

When all Muslim men understand that your woman should choose to stay with you because she truly thinks you are great to be with, not because she is fearful of the repercussions of leaving, then I will know Islam is a free and fair religion of peace.

When all Muslim men have grown up enough to be able to look upon a woman’s face without feeling the need to rape her, then I will know Islam is a free and fair religion of peace.

When a woman leading prayers doesn't even raise and eyebrow, then I will know Islam is a free and fair religion of peace.

When a woman can be an Ayatollah , then I will know Islam is a free and fair religion of peace.

When a woman can choose to never wear religious suggested garb and that choice will have no detrimental impact on her status, wealth, health, or ability to marry, then I will know Islam is a free and fair religion of peace.
However,

When a beautiful young atheist woman wearing a micro-bikini and carrying a Muhammad doll can hike across Iran, drinking alcohol if she chooses, smoking cigarettes if she chooses, fucking whomever SHE is free to along the way and have no fear of hindrance or persecution for her choices,

then I will know for sure that Islam is a free and fair religion of peace.

International nation of Islam, Male or Female, Old or Young, you say your Qur'an is peaceful but I ask you, while you continue to allow the primitive savagery inherent in your religion, are you not complicit by inaction, in the hideous atrocities sanctioned by the foul novel to which you forlornly cling?
Can you really, in all honesty expect any rational person to consider Muslims as anything more than oppressed and broken savages, cowering in the shadow of an immature Dark Age dogma in the vain hope of a ticket to paradise?

Laws are only as strong as the will of the people,
the defending soldiers in this attack on freedom are willing mothers.

We just have to hope that it's not already too late!

Right that's the lot, if I think of anything else I don't like about this cancerous doctrine, I'll let you know.
Anyway, my delicate and peaceful atheist sensibilities are feeling, shall we say, somewhat sullied by all the violence of this distasteful pot of puke I've come to think of as not a religion of peace but the greatest threat to freedom humanity has ever faced, so I'm going for a very long bath to try and scrape of the filth and then away on jolly hols. Try and see a bit of the world before Islam sucks the life out of it.
Where do you think? Riyadh? Mecca? Tehran?
Hell, somewhere warm anyway!

This is one of the Too Many Questions

PEACE (As-Salamu Alaykum)
Crispy

Please NoteBefore this post was written,Allah was asked to prevent its publication if he thought it offensive or blasphemous.He did not, therefore it's sanctioned.

About that man Muhammad…
I despise the Qur'an's fucked up view of idolatry. The Qur'an is against idolatry isn't it?
An idol is a person or item which is singled out, held higher than the crowd. Often statues or paintings are created in the honour of the 'revered one'.
In Islam, followers are indoctrinated to violently oppose images of Muhammad.
However, by endeavouring to following the spirit of the book and avoid misplaced idolatry their very protection of Muhammad's lack of an image, bestows upon Muhammad honours not given to others, whom are consider 'lesser mortals'. Muhammad is the 'revered one', segregated from the masses, singled out for special treatment and held higher than the crowd.

How is that very protection not idolatry?

How is a pilgrimage to the cave at Hira not idolatry?

How is a pilgrimage to Mecca not idolatry?

How is a playing ring o' ring o' religious death-race around the big black box not idolatry?

How is holding one man’s words above another’s not idolatry?

Yet Islam is promoted as the no idol faith!

Does that seem quite fucked up to you too?

And about the cave at Hira…

This is a very interesting video which gives some interesting grounding and background to the point I’m making next. It’s not necessary to watch it, it’s here if you’d like to.

His fire could easily have, simultaneously decreased the available oxygen and increased the carbon monoxide.
In such a confined space, this would likely have induced a state of hypoxia. Lack of oxygen inside and then rushing outside to the fresh mountain air would produce violent trembling a shaking as the body re-oxygenated and endured the shock.

(I've a lot of experience of asthma. I know about oxygen deprivation)

Could this Hypoxia not have produced the feelings of euphoria, out of body experiences and hallucinations that would account for his experiences in the cave?

I think it could.

Would the prolonged and possibly addictive oxygen starvation highs have produce a highly complex psychosis built on his desire to find solutions to his society’s ills?

I reckon this is also highly plausible.

As with almost all people of his time Muhammad would have had a strong supernatural component to his world-view. He wrote the Qur’an almost three centuries after Rome fell to Christianity, so he already knew of the power of the Hebrew god and the angel Gabriel, the old and new testaments had been around for at least half a millennium, and the Jesus stories would have been widely known. As people who already believe in the supernatural are proven to see patterns where there are none, he would also more prone to this phenomena.

In this state of diminished rationality and heightened suggestibility Muhammad would have totally believed, with a conviction, that he had seen Jinn/Jibril, in the same way as Joan of Arc totally believed, or how any schizophrenic human may totally believe they have heard voices, seen visions etc.

If the Hypoxia theory cannot be disproved, and barring direct evidence that Muhammad had no fire, I don't see how it can, is it not more reasonable to simply assume that Muhammad's revelations are merely hypoxia induced hallucinations of a man with a predisposition to ‘spiritual’ fantasy?

I think it's very probable.

And the manifesto born of that man’s hallucinations? A life-limiting regime which crushes all truly free creativity. Music, poetry, art, sculpture, literature etc. every form of human expression that is about human existence is stifled by the doctrine.
Do you think human creativity should be jailed inside the walls of his religiously sanctioned prison?

I wholeheartedly vehemently think not!

Maybe you’ll disagree but for me the Qur'an’s core message is...

“Bollocks to your freedom, Muhammad will dictate how you think!

And if you don’t think it 'the right way' the regime will persecute you to death.”

How can anyone who believes in democracy not be offended by each mosque?
How can anyone who believes in freedom not be offended by a burqa?
How can anyone who believes in liberty not be offended by the Qur'an?

To this free thinking, free spirited Celt,
Muhammad’s book is not merely a religion,
it is the manifesto for an evil totalitarian regime,
a liberty crushing political system

I despise the Qur'an's message of global domination. Any manifesto with global domination at its core is against humanity.
I do not know how fast Islam's attack on global freedom is progressing, birth rates are difficult to interpret, but it's not looking great is it? This is not a racist comment in fact it’s not much more than an observation. In western democracies, where women are not considered mere baby factories, they have a life, a career and so have a much fewer children. Muslim women seem to be having more children than non-Muslim women so it looks likely that the non-Muslims are soon to be out bred.
What I do know is…
My ancestral core is running about panicking, telling me to start screaming -

“Women of western democracies look around. Is the battle for this planet under way? And is it being fought in maternity wards? If you don’t start having many more babies soon, in only a few generations, might global Sharia Law be a very real possibility?”

I don’t know if my ancestral core is right, though it hasn’t steered me wrong before, but what I do know is...
Islam but specifically Sharia Law is exactly the opposite of the life I would choose for my granddaughter!
I don’t want her beauty hidden under a hideous black sack.
I don’t want her to be oppressed into prayer and servitude.
I don’t want her fabulously unlimited human nature, limited by a pretend god and his false prophet’s evil proponents.
I don’t want her to be subjugated by this hideous religion in any way!
I want more for her than the nonsense of the Qur’an.
I want her freedom to shine!

Please do all you can to end Sharia Law
but remember this cannot be won in the courts,

Laws are only as strong as the will of the people,
the defending soldiers in this attack on freedom are willing mothers.

Makes you wonder if the terrorist attacks are just a decoy?
Nah that's just silly, eh?

As far as I’m concerned, while the Qur'an carries such a hateful, diversity and freedom trampling message of global domination, each and every copy should carry a public health warning.
Until that evil message is expunged from the pages, Islam itself should be seen as a force that directly opposes freedom and liberty. The Qur’an should be considered no more than the manifesto of a one man to rule the world.

Global Sharia would be a crime against humanity.

Until there is testable proof of Allah, can the Qur’an really be considered any more than Muhammad’s last orders?

If you want to see a religion of peace, check out Buddhism. In Buddhism there’s none of the chopping off of heads or hands, punishment beatings, honour killings, stoning, you know, all the violent savagery that seems to be at the core of Islam.
Islam is intransigent, unreasonable and I cannot accept Islam as a force for good.
I cannot accept Islam because it is in direct opposition to my own superior morality.
Why is the intolerable mistreatment of women allowed to continue?
Why are there no UN sanctions against the countries that allow this?
Why do mothers still allow it?
Why do husbands?
How can a brother watch his baby sister beaten?

FEAR!But of an ancient myth?
Or of a violent controlling regime?

And why do Princes and Kings, who should know better, allow it?

FEAR!But of an ancient myth?
Or of losing their status, power and control?

Stand up against the control!

Is it really your choice to spend what little life you have
bowing to the arse and socks of the hairy bloke in front of you, five times a day? Step out, go fishing.

Are you not giving to the masters of the religion that enslaves you,
all the power they need to keep you captive, simply by turning up for 'worship'?
If you must pray, why not pray alone?

Why not dump the blatantly inferior morality of the Qur'an and enjoy your life without the oppression of masters?

For there is no evidence of an afterlife, no proof of paradise,

for all you truly know, the life you have is all the life there is.

Unless Allah’s existence is tested and proved true…
How can the Qur’an, or any creation story for that matter, be considered as any more than a novel, with Allah merely a main character and Muhammad its author?
How can the evangelising of Muhammad’s story be considered anything but a lie, intended to promote intolerant religious fascism?

Those of us who are not indentured to and brainwashed by Islam would, I suggest, describe 'moderates' as people who are Normal, Sane and Humane, but the moderates of the poem sound, to me at least, like a minority, a quiet voice amongst the lynch mob.
If that is true...
How may we, who are free, draw any conclusion other than the letter and law of the Qur'an makes Abnormal, Insane and Inhumane cruelty seem normal and rational?

How are we who are free supposed to feel anything but anger at that?

How many Muslims truly support those most hideously barbaric violent sanctions stipulated in, that novel, the Qur’an?
How many Muslims are just too fearful of retribution to take a 'moderate' stand?
How many are merely prisoners acting under prison rules?
You know... You're with us or against us! Stone or be Stoned!
Standard issue bullying, primitive and tribal, lord of the flies style religious fascism.

If you feel like you are trapped in something which feels like an insane medieval nightmare and think you might be normal or would like the chance to be normal, there’s real help at the Council of ex-Muslims of Britain (link below)

The Qur’an passes itself off as the words of a god but how can benevolent god sanction horrifically brutal and unnecessary violence. Sharia is nasty evil nonsense designed specifically to intimidate, oppress and persecute those who don't follow archaic law.
There is no freedom in Islam, especially for women, reducing them to baby factories, the slaves of testosterone. Perhaps it’s the testosterone that makes Islam such a violent regime.
The violent subjugation of women.
The violent persecution of Homosexuals.
The violent persecution of those named apostate

For those who don’t know - apostates are those who, quite understandably, cannot bring themselves to pretend in Allah, or in the manifesto of his false prophet and conman Muhammad. (Before you go getting all bent out of shape about 'false' and 'conman' – If you prove that Allah exists I will instantly retract it!)

Violence for this, violence for that
and violence especially for the other.
Islam is violent through and through.

If a person does not follow the words in that novel the Qur’an, its idiot zealot followers violently punish the non-conformist. And all because they are scared that the Allah they pretend in will punish them for their inaction!

If it wasn’t so tragic it would be laughable!
Can we say Crazy Primitive Fuckwits?

If the Qur’an did not pretend to grant eternal life, would anyone hold its passages as true?

I think not!

In fact, without its prize of an ‘all expenses paid, trip of a lifetime, to paradise’, the Qur’an, as with all other doctrines, looks exactly like a manifesto for totalitarian control. Control that is blatantly evident in the speech and writings of many of its followers, instructed as they are to add ‘PBUH’ or ‘May Allah be pleased with her’ to their words.

The Qur’an is a mind prison.

And about those religious affectations that are applied, I thought Muhammad didn't even want a tomb! I can't see him being the sort of man who went around enforcing 'Say "Peace be unto him" when you speak my name.' Can you? Really? I reckon if he had been that sort, nobody would have taken any notice of him in the first place! So that affectation must have come from the high priests, clerics, Imams and Ayatollahs, what-have-you, to limit freedom of thought.
The Nazi's prohibited books that where against their doctrine, doesn't Islam do the same? And why? Because the men who control the religion fear the knowledge will loosen their grip. They proclaim the books to be against the teachings in the Qur’an which followers are taught is perfect, and so 'must' be wrong! More evidence of the mind prison?

But could the Qur’an be the perfect book?

Humanity knows way more than is written in the Qur’an. Hell, I know more than is in the Qur’an! It was written before most of the knowledge humans have, was known. Its contribution to life's useful knowledge is minimal.

And, whether it's perfect or not, it's certainly is not necessary.

I've been married, brought up children and had a very nice life, without ever seeing even the cover of the Qur'an! I've never once thought "Ooh, you know what, I need to read the Qur'an for guidance."
Can anyone supply a page from the Qur’an that describes CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) Unlikely? Or one that tells of how to cure Cancer? Again, doubtful? Can anyone supply a page which tells of why a woman should be stoned? Almost certainly, and probably more than one page!
If you needed emergency brain surgery, who would you choose to operate on you?

A fully trained brain surgeon or
a member of the Muslim religious hierarchy?

I know you'd choose the surgeon and that you would make that choice because you wouldn't want a man trained in brain surgery by the Qur’an messing around inside your head! He'd be useless!

Now, while inclusion of these 'useful things', or any other useful thing for that matter, would not of itself signal the unquestionable divinity of the Qur'an, the lack of their inclusion does show that the Qur'an is imperfect simply because is does not include ALL information. Surely, only a book which presents ALL the knowledge of the universe in a non partisan format can be considered perfect?

There's a separate question here, has anyone ever done a survey to find out what the global population would consider a perfect book? Is there even a 'perfection test' for books? I feel there should perhaps be at least a survey taken before anyone goes using the label 'the perfect book'.
And to extend that thought, is there a legal issue?
How can a book which has not been tested for perfection, be promoted as such?
The UK's Trade Descriptions Act 1968 states...

'Each product sold(1) must be as described, of satisfactory quality, and fit for purpose as described refers to any advert or verbal description made by the trader.'

Which basic means...

'If it doesn't do what it says on the tin,
it is illegal to claim that it does!'

If the Qur'an cannot prove its perfection, shouldn't its promotion as such be considered illegal in the UK?

(1)In this instance 'sold' would have the meaning 'comprehended' as in 'Yeah, I buy it'

Finally, how can a book which one must learn a language to 'fully comprehend' be perfect? That automatically excludes those who, for whatever reason, cannot learn that language! To extend this question, how can anyone accept as 'perfect' any book which cannot even defeat the mortally written Divine Evidence Laws?

She was just being a human, standing up to the man, protesting for truth an justice, as so many of us do and have done, without suffering anything near the ultimate price she and many others have paid.

Peace to all who have been killed or injured in the various struggles

for freedom, truth and justice around the world.

As it's coming up to the first anniversary of Neda's very public death, I thought I'd have a look at the type of regime she was standing up to and apply Too Many Questions to Islam and its trappings. So for this first post in a series of seven, I’m going to start with a heads up, so everyone can see where I’m coming from...

About blasphemy

For anyone to consider anything someone says as blasphemous, one must first accept that there is an intelligent prime creator of the universe.

This is unproven.

Anyone claiming that an intelligent prime creator of the universe is a truthful fact, may only therefore be considered mentally unstable, a liar or at least misguided.
Until an intelligent prime creator of the universe is proven, any offence of blasphemy must also be considered unprovable.
If, at the end of days, some mouldy old god wants a chat about anything I’ve said, I’m sure he’d be capable of doing so himself without any help from human prohibition.

As one quick proof that Allah either, does not exist, or, does not care what humans say or do heres a... I'd guess you'd call it a prayer!… Eeooow but anyway…

Dear Allah dude,
I’m about to deliver some blistering tirades against you and your followers.
Feel free to impede me, stop me, strike me down but do it yourself! Don't be a lazy bastard; it's no good getting one of your followers to do it because we will all know that you don’t exist if one of your followers has to 'help' you!
And remember Allah babe you need to do it before I publish, or the posts will be out there proving that you didn't stop me because either, you don't exist, or because you don't consider the message blasphemous.
Anyway, non-existent old sky guy Allah dude thanks for listening, or whatever the expected sign off is, here’s the first blistering tirade about that prime piece of fuzzy bollocks, a religion 'you' called Islam…

Wishing you better than you wish us,

PEACE, Crispy er... but you knew that, right?

Muslims listen up. It seems you have been fooled & hoodwinked, I suspect by power crazed evil old men who have controlled you for centuries.
I know you have been taught to believe that the Qur’an is perfectly true and that Allah created the universe but what anyone ‘believes’ is irrelevant - Only facts matter.
On current factual evidence alone…

The genetic record confirms the fossil record

so, currently, evolution is looking most likely and is certainly more likely and reasonable than "allah did it by magic". And before you go claiming, 'allah created evolution', think a bit harder, these are mutually exclusive concepts. one is externally guided, one is not! for more on this see On The First Day God Created Evolution.
My questions here are simple…
How can any reasonable person choose to ignore the facts in favour of the fable?
To refuse to accept something because it’s not what you want to be true instead of embracing reality, that is the decision of a child, isn’t it?
On current facts alone, stating that Allah is the god creator is obviously idiotic, to me it sounds as silly as someone stoutly proclaiming, 'I don't believe in DNA', so how can the Qur’an still be thought of as anything more than nursery rhymes and fairy stories?

If, when having her daughter baptised, a mother had to sign a document, a letter to the future adult that baby girl will become, that details in plain English, what is expected of a woman in the religion into which she is being enrolled, I wondered how many mothers would sign their child over to that doctrine?

By way of an example...

Dear daughter,

I've not thought about it much but because everyone else believes, I believe that it is only right and proper for you my sweet, sweet girl, to be the property of your husband.
I think further, as our faith tells us, that he should beat you if you get out of hand.
You should serve him because you are inferior - the god in which we believe says this in his book, so it must be true.
I hereby commit you to a lifetime of slavery and guilt at the hands this male dominated and male favouring institution.
Welcome to a lifetime of second class citizenship in the men's club. I hope you hate being subservient as much as I have.
Oh by the way, in this religion we slice out your clitoris in the most painful and traumatising way, and no you don't have a choice. You'll probably get an infection and end up totally mutilated but who gives a fuck eh?

Yours, the ever uncaring, stone hearted bitch who you've had the misfortune to call mother.

I know that was somewhat tongue in cheek but you get the idea, if the responsibilities and status of the woman were spelled out clearly and the mother had to sign the document, do you think they would?

As no child can have a say in the rules of the doctrine into which she is being sold, shouldn't a document like this be a legal requirement in the naming and enslaving rituals performed by religions?

As far as I'm concerned the Universal Declaration of Human Rights should not be a document to which governments agree to abide by, the declaration should be viewed and classed as a human birthright, unbreakable, non-negotiable and irrevocable. If you are human you have them!
All humans should be able to appeal to the UN for protection under the Declaration of Human rights.

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